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Votes at a glance: Cypress board approves minutes, consent items, contracts, calendar and policies
Summary
At its Feb. 13 meeting the Cypress School District Board of Trustees approved minutes from Jan. 14, consent items (including ESSER-era gift cards), a library donation, a nonpublic school contract, a $60,000 Golden State Pathways grant agreement, the 2025–26 academic calendar, a website-hosting contract ($101,500) and updated board policies. All items passed on voice votes as recorded in the meeting transcript.
The Cypress School District Board of Trustees took a series of formal actions at its Feb. 13 meeting. The motions below reflect the actions recorded in the boardroom and the outcomes as read in the oral record.
Approved items (motion carried — voice vote as recorded in the transcript):
- Approve minutes of the regular meeting of 01/14/2025 (motion carried). - Approve consent items 10.1–10.8 (motion carried). These included purchase orders for gift cards discussed during the consent-item Q&A (Albertsons/Safeway $12,608; Target corporate gift cards $37,828) to be distributed under an accountability plan. - Approve library book donation (6 copies of Buffalo, Buffalo to each school; total $90.84) in recognition of Day of the Teacher and School Employee Week. - Ratify master contract with Rosier Park Elementary (02/01/2025–06/30/2025) at no cost to the district for nonpublic school services to expand placement options for students with behavioral needs. - Approve service agreement with the Orange County Superintendent of Schools for the Golden State Pathways Program (grant funding $60,000; 08/01/2024–08/01/2027) to augment career-pathways activities. - Adopt the 2025–26 traditional and year-round academic calendars and holidays for employees; staff explained the calendar committee composition and the programmatic reason for three weeks at Christmas tied to ELOP/expanded-learning requirements. - Approve contract with Active Internet Technologies (DBA Bridal Site) for website hosting and districtwide communications (07/01/2025–06/30/2030) at a total cost of $101,500; staff will provide procurement parameters in a forthcoming Friday report. - Adopt updated board policies, administrative regulations and bylaws effective 02/13/2025.
Where the transcript records only a voice vote the oral record states "motion carries" or "aye"; no roll-call tallies for individual board members were recorded in the spoken minutes provided.
Next steps noted in the meeting record include staff follow-up reports on gift-card distribution procedures and procurement documentation for the website contract; the district also committed to provide survey response-rate details related to the LCAP update.
